Hi, I'm Melissa...

As a kid, I wanted to be a Coastie, a ballerina, a fire-fighter, a fashion designer, a spy, an ambassador, and an interior designer... and I was terrified of fish.
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As an adult, I've been a National Security Fellow, an ecstatic dancer, a social worker, a somatic coach with a splash of reiki and shamanic magic, a civil servant, a perpetual world-traveler, and a writer... and discovered a fondness for scuba and all the little fishies in God's incredible kingdom!
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I champion choices that satisfy your soul over the choices that the expectations of others might have you make. Always remember to swim parallel to the shore to escape the rip-tide of expectation (and, often, limiting beliefs that accompany it)!
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A mantra to repeat:
My life is limitless, getting better
each and every day
in each and every way.
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Education and Trainings
2025
Diploma in Body-Oriented Coaching, the Somatic School
Reiki Levels 1 and 2, Wild Power Alchemy
The Shaman's Path of the Heart, Lendrick Lodge
2021-2023
Master of Social Work, University of Edinburgh
2019-2020
National Security Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
2013
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, Marianne Wells Yoga School
2007-2009
Masters of Arts in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
2002-2006
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Bryn Mawr College
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